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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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